. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . look-ing after the stock and odd jobs of tinkering and tool-mendingabout his premises, the farmers chief concern is his woodpile. Ifhe has a good deal of woodland, chopping and logging form animportant feature of the winter. If he has little, he often hireshimself out to those who want help in the woods. The best parts of the trees which make good timber are hauledaway as logs t(j the sawmills, and anything that will serve forrailroad ties or telegraph poles is likewise reserved. Trees thatha\e no timber value, and the tops of those that have, are cut
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . look-ing after the stock and odd jobs of tinkering and tool-mendingabout his premises, the farmers chief concern is his woodpile. Ifhe has a good deal of woodland, chopping and logging form animportant feature of the winter. If he has little, he often hireshimself out to those who want help in the woods. The best parts of the trees which make good timber are hauledaway as logs t(j the sawmills, and anything that will serve forrailroad ties or telegraph poles is likewise reserved. Trees thatha\e no timber value, and the tops of those that have, are cut intofour-foot lengths, split if necessary, and piled up readv to besledded off. It is the method, usually, to cut the particularpatch of forest selected for work clear of all standing woodthat has any value for sawmill oi burning purposes. Spring findsthe land bare, sa\e for the brush-heaps, a few saplings, and anoccasional gaunt and decayed old trunk still ujiright. The moun-tain sides and the rocky hills and hollows are the chief homes. 25 ««A HOOK OF COUNTRYCLOUDS AND SUNSHINE of the forests ; but the willows and jxiplars along the river-banksare sometimes a source of woodpile supply. In some towns are shops where tobacco-sorting or broom-tvinghas a place among winter industries. Such sho])s are famous
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